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[Chris Trask]

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Brian Carling wrote:

> I used to buy parts mail-order from Cameradio, Lafayette and Allied,
> and I spent HOURS poring through the catalogs back in those days,
> trying to imagine all of the ham and CB radios that they pictured in
> B/W with (sometimes) hand drawn pictures of the sets!
>
> As a teenager I didn't have much cash, so usually rolled my own or
> scrounged parts etc. I built one rig using a BC-614 plug-in with an
> 807 modulated by a 6L6 (I think!) or something like that!
>

        Here too.  I had a small paper route and scrounged parts from
old TV sets that people threw out, as well as parts from a junk yard
in New Cumberland (PA).  Paper route income went to Poly Paks, Olson,
and Burstein-Applebee, plus an occasional Heathkit, all of which I
still have.  If not for those sources, I would not have learned as
much about this stuff and might not be where I am now.

        You can't get anyone interested in even looking at a soldering
iron anymore.


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